European History: An Outline of Its Development

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Macmillan, 1899 - 577 páginas
 

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Página 230 - English possessions in France. In Italy the conflicting claims of the two sovereigns would have led to war even if the greater rivalry of European position had not existed. This war was the first stage in the conflict between France and the house of Hapsburg which dominates all the international politics of Europe from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century, and which has affected so disastrously the position of both powers in the world of to-day.
Página 469 - ... Professors Samuel B. Harding and UG Weatherby. University of Indiana. (Bloomington • 5 cents each.) Mathews. Select Mediaeval Documents. (Boston; Silver.) Nations. Story of the Nations Series. (Putnam.) Old South. Old South Leaflets. (Directors of the Old South Work. Boston ; 5 cents each.) Penn. Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History. (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania. 10 to 25 cents each ; bound volumes $1.50.) Periods. Periods of European...
Página 108 - Hodgkin, Chap. XIII. SIGNATURE OF CHARLEMAGNE survived, men knew more of books, and wrote better Latin than they had done before, and those who wished to learn found it easier to do so. 70. Charlemagne's Place in History. — Charlemagne's reign fills but a short time in the long period of the Middle Ages, but it binds the whole together. In him is completed the process which runs through the first half, the Germanization of the Roman Empire. There was a Roman Empire again uniting...
Página 191 - By Dr. WILHELM BUSCH, Professor at the University of Freiburg, in Baden. England under the Tudors. Vol. I. Henry VII. (1485-1509). Translated from the German by Miss ALICE M. TODD and the Rev. AH JOHNSON, sometime Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, under the supervision of, and with an Introduction by Mr. JAMES GAIRDNER, Editor of the
Página 248 - Cranmer, wh0, in the meantime, had been appointed archbishop of Canterbury. In 1534 the Act of Supremacy was passed, by which the king was declared sole and exclusive head of the Church of England, and received practically the same rights as had formerly been exercised by the Pope. Any refusal to admit the new order of things was to be construed as an act of high treason. Among the first victims of the new despotism were John Fisher, the worthy...

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